Former boss Jim Magilton has revealed he has yet to come to a financial settlement with Town regarding his Portman Road exit and that the matter is set to go to court. The Northern Irishman, who left his subsequent role as QPR boss earlier in the season, was sacked by the Blues last April with his contract due to run to this summer.

In an interview in the Belfast Telegraph, Magilton said: “I was 11 years at Ipswich Town as player and manager, but we couldn't reach an agreement and that’s going to court. The other one is in the process of getting done.”

The former midfielder says his experiences at Town and QPR haven’t put him off managing another club: “If an opportunity comes along, why not? I have no fear of going back into a job.

“I have hopefully learned from both experiences and hopefully that will stand me in good stead. The nature of how I left both clubs hasn’t put me off.”

Magilton says he has been interviewed for one management job since leaving QPR in December.

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dirtydingusmagee added 10:57 - Mar 8 if he is owed money he should get it ,simple.Keano is getting his wedge,and we are worse off as far as league positions go,than he have been in a long while .Peakyboy Jim should not have to drag it through courts, he wants what is due ,as devontractorboy said you or i would be wanting money owed ,he is no different .
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bennyblue added 11:05 - Mar 8 i hope we are not paying keane for what he is doing to the club i thought norwich would be covering his salary surely
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GeorgiDoundarov added 13:25 - Mar 8 That is a shame! Here is what money can make out of people... Jim was a player that everybody loved. As a manager he didn't do well but at least we still know him as a positive person who always claimed he loved this club. And now he sent the club he loved that much to court! The same club that gave so much to him during his days as a player and the same club that open him the doors of Management. Let us be fair. If it wasn't ITFC to offer him a Manager's job he would be going to Oxford down there and nobody would even consider him as a football manager and specialist. I just want him to remember this when he plead his case in court!!!

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Lightningboy added 13:39 - Mar 8 Should never have been sacked in the first place.
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TractorRoyNo1 added 13:42 - Mar 8 I know 'contracts are contracts' but surely 'being useless' is grounds for sacking.
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dirtydingusmagee added 13:42 - Mar 8 georgi, thats business ! no place for such sentiment .
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I_ONCE_WAS added 14:16 - Mar 8 That Magilton has got some front I'll give him that!!
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blue added 14:45 - Mar 8 LAUGHING STOCK SOME OF THESE COMMENTS. JIM SACKED OWED MONEY END OFF,COULD OF BEEN PAID LAST YEAR. R.K BE DOING THE SAME IF WE GO DOWN!
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WadzillaBhoy added 15:46 - Mar 8 Italiano I agree with you about Keano as our manager, he will be great. But Jimbo was quality, when we got him on loan he was easily the best player in our team. Am I right in saying we got a part exchange deal - Jimbo for Danny Sonner? Now thats a deal, our team played good football with him playing in midfield. The only good signings Jimbo made were Walters and Gio. Macauly is a different player under Keano and with Delaney, well the fact that Ian Holloway calls the pair the Twin Towers speaks volumes. We are improving all the time and I cant wait for next season

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StanwayBlue added 15:47 - Mar 8 Georgi, you are looking at this as a fan of the club. Jim loves the club but ultimately he was an employee under a previous regime, not a North Stand die-hard. The new one didn't want him and sacked him. Of course he should get what he is owed. A contract is a contract in any business. While we are talking about "our" club just remember it is the same club that sacked him and appointed a new manager the next day! Our club were no different than Man City were in getting shot of Mark Hughes - they kept their manager in post until a deal was done with someone else. Not a thing to be proud of!

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dirtydingusmagee added 16:20 - Mar 8 spot on StanwayBlue.Perhaps they are worried about having to shell out again soon .!
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osborne1nil added 16:27 - Mar 8 Spot on Surco72. Magilton may not have got us promoted, but he didn't look like getting us relegated. If he is owed money he should be paid it. It could be something a little more complicated and this is why if after this time it hasn't been resolved that it will go to court?
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denhamblue added 16:28 - Mar 8 lol good quality football this season,omg,ive been to 6 away games and 5 home,and only 3 times have we played to a good standard,to many blind visioned,fans on here,next oit will be were to good to go down,lets be frank,crap season,not better football,this team is even worse than duncans shambles in the 80s,league position dont lie,and stick yopur ,oh were so unlucky crap,up your rectal passage.

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NorthStand added 17:54 - Mar 8 Italiano, I haven't laughed so much at a post. You really are delusional and your comment that Roy Keane will lead us "up, up and up" had me slapping my thigh and rolling around the ground uncontrollably. Does the first up mean you expect RK to lead us to the Premiership, the second up to the Premier League title and the third up to the European Champions League? Get a grip man! You sounded so convincing when you said the only reason we're in a relegation battle is because we kept conceding late goals earlier in the season and because we lack confidence in front of goal more recently. Shouldn't that bloke, er, what do they call him..... yeah the manager take some responsibility? After all, he buys the players, picks the team and decides on tactics. A bit more objectivity and clear thinking wouldn't go amiss.

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WickedBlue added 19:27 - Mar 8 What a lot of you people saying with JM we finished 9th if only he was in charge now may I remind you he had 3 years to gets us to ninth. I was and still am a JM supporter and I think he will make a decent manager but he is gone and as I don't know the in and outs of the claim, is JM only claiming that his contract be paid up or is he claiming more? I don't know if it is only to be paid up then I say we should but if he wants more then I say fight it.

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jas0999 added 20:26 - Mar 8 What's his '11 years' at Ipswich got to do with it? Just pay him off. One for ME and JM to sort.
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WREXHAM_BLUE added 20:45 - Mar 8 A great shame it has come to this. Hope he gets the settlement owing to him - which he deserves - and we can all move on.
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WREXHAM_BLUE added 21:24 - Mar 8 Italiano - (and before you say it, this is neither a pro-Keane nor and anti-Keane comment).. in what way have our facilities improved since Jim left? As for Jim only playing one good match - you must be having a laugh. You obviously weren't one of the people singing "sign him up" during his loan spell when he first joined!!
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Berts_chin added 22:35 - Mar 8 From what I hear, we could have got rid of him for very similar reasons to those that QPR did. He ought to be grateful that his managerial career wasn't brought abruptly to an end right then.
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WadzillaBhoy added 20:01 - Mar 10 Berts chin - they are alleagations, dont spread stuff that you hear. When I was a kid I heard the tooth fairy was real. Anyways what I heard at QPR was that the players run the dressing room and have been allowed to do this under the previous chairman. As the players had control they could get any manager they wanted to be sacked. It was very conveinient that the incident happened in the dressing room - only the players and the coaching staff were there, so it was their words vs Jimbo's.

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Seasider added 15:34 - Mar 11 ME is tough cookie who is not averse to upsetting people who as a ruthless capitalist businessman one would expect. Had to have a solicitor defend him at an enquiry in 1997 when he upset the 'Powers that be' at Wimbledon when he served strawberries and cream from his back garden near the venue to undercut official suppliers. 10 years later Rugby World Cup Organisers took him to court in France for sharp practise when he was described as a parasite;but he won the case. Naturally Jim wants as much money as he can get and Marcus aint going to pay him a penny more than he has to.

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